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Like a lot of people who are lucky enough to have jobs with paid holidays, I had today off work for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. After going out for breakfast with a friend I decided to go to the YMCA. I went up my usual exit ramp from the freeway, where I then make a left turn. There is almost always someone standing there holding a cardboard sign, asking for money. Continue Reading
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Hot stuff on cold days at NE Minneapolis farmers’ markets by Margo Ashmore, North News • A great place to lose your tongue and at least a few bucks – the Indoor Market at the Eastside Food Coop January 8 was the first sunny Saturday of the season’s run. I tried a peach/pepper jam (delightful/hot, and I could imagine it with brie) followed by Bill’s Hot Mustard on pretzels, which sent me scrambling for relief at the Q.ue Kombucha table. Poor people say: no more hate! by Staff, The Uptake • For the 18th consecutive year the Welfare, Rights Committee demonstrated at the State Capitol on the opening day for the legislature. Vang Pao legacy is the future of Hmong in U.S., Laos and world by Richard Kagan, Asian American Press • General Vang Pao, commander of the Hmong resistance to the Laotian and Vietnamese Communists, community leader in exile in the United States, and charismatic leader, died in California at the age of 81. Continue Reading
Trans woman murdered in Minneapolis, vigil planned for Jan. 21 by Andy Birkey, The Colu.mn • Chrissie Bates, a transgender woman who lived in downtown Minneapolis, was found murdered in her apartment on Monday in what police are calling a homicide. Police say she appeared to have been stabbed. Details are still sketchy, but CityPages notes that Bates had feared for her safety in her building. MUSIC | Tapes ‘N Tapes at the Electric Fetus by Stacy Schwartz, TC Daily Planet • On Tuesday afternoon, Tapes ‘N Tapes played at the Electric Fetus record store in Minneapolis as part of the release festivities for their new album Outside. Continue Reading
Follow the sounds of childhood laughter up and over the snowbanks and into Margaret Playground on the East Side. It is 1937, and as you near the hockey rink, you can see a small mob of adolescent boys and girls huddled together or sliding on the ice. They are joining the hockey goals into a small cage. Inside, giggling along with the others, are my grandmother and grandfather.
Churches share community concerns, vision for state by John Kerr, Camden News • Ten groups of parishioners from Northside churches gathered in homes during October to build relationships and discuss their vision for the future of Minnesota. The 90-minute conversations, including a DVD about racial disparities in Minnesota, were designed to get people thinking about their opportunities (or lack of such), ways of building a healthy community and messages to send to the new governor in December. MUSIC | Brute Heart’s “Brass Beads” simply string the listener along by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet • Vapid, vacuous, and pretentious, Brass Beads by Brute Heart is an offering on which one does well to take a pass. Love Covers spreads holiday cheer with a universal message by Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder • Around 20 local individuals comprise the cast of Love Covers, a play staged last Saturday, December 18, at the Women’s Club of Minneapolis. NEW IN BLOGS SAINT PAUL ALMANAC | Revolt at the Midway Discount Shopping Mall by Richard Broderick • The department’s floor personnel — Bobbi, Tess, Shaun, Alice, and the stock boy, Luis — received word in that week’s pay envelope, but rumors had been circulating for some time that the store was closing. Continue Reading
Many years ago I had the privilege of working for a decade in a lovely college library situated on a Mankato hilltop overlooking the usually tranquil valley of the Minnesota River. Many times I thought about the view, the beauty and the fact that this was the site from which locals had once observed the travesty in which 38 Dakota Indians were hanged. If my memory lapsed all I Continue Reading
Imagine the sound our collective yearning
for the return of the light must make:
all that whistling past the graveyard
in the darkest hours of the night, hours
which, at this time of year, seem like
they will never end, though that
has never happened, at least not yet,
the sun remaining true to the blind law Continue Reading
MUSIC | Soul Asylum at First Avenue by Eric Petersen, TC Daily Planet • On Friday night, local heroes Soul Asylum played First Avenue in Minneapolis. MUSIC | “I don’t like square boxes”: Kenn Wanaku drops a new disc by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet • One of the Twin Cities’ brighter guitar stars, Kenn Wanaku, has a new EP: Bei Samoh (SunPlugd). His second disc follows the striking, full-length debut Afrikan Guitarstrophy (SunPlugd), an imaginatively adventurous outing that enhanced an already strong reputation in Twin Cities music. Q & A with Rapper Brother Ali: High school opens huge doors by Erika Roedl and Edwin Flowers of Twin Cities Academy and ThreeSixty staff, ThreeSixty • ThreeSixty reporters Erika Roedl and Edwin Flowers interviewed Brother Ali by phone this fall after he made a public service announcement supporting an effort by Minneapolis public schools to persuade people who have dropped out of school to return. The rapper left high school without a diploma. Continue Reading
Snow again—and with all the attention paid by the news media, you’d think snow in December in Minnesota was something unusual.Traffic jams started in early afternoon, followed shortly by snow emergency announcements from both Minneapolis and St. Paul (details below).On my street, there’s a Santa snow barometer. The neighbors’ Santa is up when the sun shines, deflated during storms.How much snow this time around? At press time (about 6 p.m.), about four inches had fallen in St. Paul. Continue Reading